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By: Jim Roy https://thebetterplan.org/2015/12/19/before-the-seminar-even-began/comment-page-1/#comment-16779
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Lucas, I am in communication with Yvonne, at Bogenhofen, about possibly coming to Austria in the late summer, early fall. What do you think?

Nebuchadnezzar and his desire for control and dominance is one of the clearest and most troubling examples of raw coercion, and one of the clearest and most brilliant examples of God’s intervention. It is amazing to me that God created us in His image, that being with the ability to choose our thinking and our behavior, even to the extent that we can disagree with Him. God’s government is about freedom!

This story reminds me of King Nebuchadnezzar’s desire to control everyone (in Daniel 3). He definitely didn’t have choice theory in mind! It seems that all he did have in mind was to feel power over others, even though their ‘worship’ may not have been genuine or done with true respect or devotion. Bowing to the idol was political and done out of fear for one’s life, not because they all wanted to…